In the first week of the baseball season, there’s a war going on in the hearts and minds of baseball fans — a battle between what you so desperately want to believe can happen and what you think will really happen. It’s the gap between the naivete of youth and the realism of experience, played out over 162 games.
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I’m here to tell you it’s OK to dream a little. This is the time to think big about breakthroughs and bouncebacks, about capturing magic in a bottle and somehow prolonging it for six weeks or six months. This time last year, the Kansas City Royals were coming off 106 losses,
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